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<big><b><u>Assertion:</u></b></big>
<div class="assert">I finally discovered the answer to a strange behavior that I 
had seen for a long time in Netscape: occasionally, some text was unselectable.
The answer: the content of tables in Netscape (text especially), is not selectable 
by the reader if the table is floated (using the ALIGN="left" or ALIGN="right".) 
This behavior has been the case ALL the way back to Netscape 2.0.</div>
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<b>Plain table, no align attribute:</b>
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<table border="2">
<tr><td>TD Cell 1</td><th>TH Cell 2</th></tr>
<tr><th>TH Cell 3</th><td>TD Cell 4</td></tr>
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<b>Plain table, align=left attribute:</b>
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<table border="2" align="left">
<tr><td>TD Cell 1</td><th>TH Cell 2</th></tr>
<tr><th>TH Cell 3</th><td>TD Cell 4</td></tr>
</table>
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<br clear="all"><br>

<b>Plain table, align=right attribute:</b>
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<table border="2" align="right">
<tr><td>TD Cell 1</td><th>TH Cell 2</th></tr>
<tr><th>TH Cell 3</th><td>TD Cell 4</td></tr>
</table>
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